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Irate residents beat up two nurses as rat bites of babys nose

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Two nurses at Kasama General Hospital were this morning assaulted by an angry mob after word went round that a baby who had its nose bitten off by rats at the hospital last Saturday had died.

And police have since arrested six male adults for allegedly assaulting the two female nurses from the labour ward whom they accused of practicing Satanism.

Both Northern Province Health Director Dr. Fabian Kabulubulu and Northern Division Police Commanding Officer Charles Lungu have confirmed the incidence to Zambia News and Information Service.

Dr. Kabulubulu who dismissed the Satanism allegations said trouble started this morning when the baby who still on a resuscitator stopped breathing and word went round that it had died.

It was then that a group of people mobilized themselves and accused the nurses of being Satanist before pouncing on them and started beating them.

The two helpless nurses, one of them a Catholic nun where then dragged to Kasama Police Station by the irate crowd.

The unruly conduct by the mob prompted other health workers to down tools as a protest and only resumed work after they were assured by management that the matter was being addressed seriously.

Dr. Kabulubulu explained that the baby who was born flat and had to be resuscitated had its nose bitted off and part of the skin on top of the mouth by a big rat shortly after it was delivered as its mother was also unconscious and had to be resuscitated.

He said it was unfortunate that the community was making Satanism allegations out of the incidence when one of the patients in the ward had confessed having seen a big rat on top of the baby before he alerted other people.

The PHD has since appealed to members of the public not to take the law into their own hands saying if they had any complaints, there were channels to follow.

He has also assured the public that the hospital will continue providing services and also addressing their concerns.

He revealed that efforts to rid the health institution of rats have been stepped up to avoid.

Dr. Kabulubulu also revealed that plans were underway to refer the baby to University Teaching hospital (UTH) tio have its nose reconstructed once its condition stabilizes.

Last week, a body of a still born baby had also parts of its body eaten by rats.

And Northern Province police commanding officer Charles Lungu said Police have intensified security at the general hospital to avoid the disruption of services.

Mr. Lungu who confirmed the arrest of the six people who assaulted the two nurses also confirmed that Police last week opened a docket following a complaint of tempering with a dead body.

105 COMMENTS

  1. What on earth? Zambia, will things ever change? Shame on the Ministry of Health having rats in wards where babies sleep. Where were the nurses? sleeping?

  2. This is a shame on Zambia. It should not even be reported. Where is your integrity as a country. having rats in wards were patients sleep? Hey come on people, lets liberate this country from this mess.

    Shame on all Zambians!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. IWE KA STANFORD#3 ARE YOU A ZAMBIAN OR SOUTH AFRICAN. DONT BELITTLE OUR MOTHER ZAMBIA LIKE THAT. YOU ARE JUST SOME ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN SOUTH AFRICA YOU ARE INSULTING OUR COUNTRY. DONT YOU KNOW THAT RATS ARE FOUND EVERYWHERE IN OUR COUNTRY AND WE EVEN EAT THEM. DONT BE FUN IWE MWAICE.

  4. YOU ARE EVEN SAYING “SHAME ON ALL ZAMBIANS”. IWE MWAICE IF YOU WERE NEARER NGANAKWIKATAMO CHANKALIPA SANA. MULETUSEBANYA SANA IF MA ZAMBIANS IN THE DIASPORA WHO CANNOT PROJECT AND FLY THE FLAG OF ZAMBIA HIGH.

  5. YOUR NIGERIAN FRIENDS ARE SO PROUD ABOUT THEIR COUNTRY AND THEY WILL NEVER DESPISE IT EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE LOST THE BAKASE PENINSULA TO CAMEROUN AND THE PROBLEMS THEY HAVE IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION. NOMBA IMWE BA ZAMBIA ECONOMIC REFUGEES CHANSONI SANA

  6. ULETUKA IFWE FWE MA PROUD ZAMBIANS. BUSHE IWE BAWISO NGALISHILU KUTI WABAKANA. BE PROUD OF WHAT YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND PEOPLE WILL RESPECT YOU. NO WONDER THEY ARE BURNING ALIVE IN SA LIKE COCKROACHES PANTU TAMWAKWATA AMANO BASHETANI

  7. PF will come and sort out those rodents I promise on the 3/11/08 they will be no more.dead, gone, wapaya koswe

  8. IWE MWAICHE # 3 ULEISHIBA UKULANDA BAKAKUPONONA MWAICE. YOU ARE JUST A DESTITUTE IN SA VERY MISERABLE PERSON WHO CANNOT EVEN WALK FREELY AND THEN YOU COME AND INSULT US ZAMBIANS WHO ARE DOING VERY FINE IN OUR OWN LAND STUPID.

  9. # 3 WIKABWEKESHAPO NAFUTI DONT MAKE OFFENSIVE COMENTS TO ZAMBIANS. IM A ZAMBIAN WHO IS DEVOLTED TO FIGHT TO THE BITTER END FOR MOTHER ZAMBIA. IT IS THE ONLY COUNTRY I HAVE SO WATCH OUT. IF WHEN YOU COME WITH YOUR MILLION DOLARS TO PERSUADE ME INTO THE DIASPORA WORLD I WILL REFUSE. I DONT WANT TO BE REMINDED THAT IM A FOREIGHNER EVERY MORNING.

  10. dont demonise the nurses. they are overwhelmed with the number of patients and surely cant be wacthing every patient all the time. even in private and developed countries with at least many health workers, nurses dont sit by the patients bedside. the pasts are everywhere, even in developed countries. what caused the deadly plegue in europe? rats!!

  11. BLOGGERS HERE ARE VERY FUNNY. LT BLOGGERS ARE SUCH COMMEDIANS. I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO READING THESE COMICAL COMMENTS EVERYTIME I OPEN THE LT WEB LINK. SAD MOST PIPO HERE CAN’T VOTE. KEEP ON BEING FUNNY IT IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL AND HELPS ONE FORGET THIS CREDIT CRUNCH KUNO KU LONDON.

  12. #13, I pity you. you are acting out of ignorance. I forgive you. You are not even patriotic. When did you leave Zambia? Just shut up because you dont know how your politicians have killed this country.

    I forgive you. Ignorance is very costly.

  13. Thus a shame. #12, Bembas refused him to carry them, that is why the mother and nurses where carried off by eating those they killed while the live ones eats the baby.

    Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo, abemba mandu….

    VIVA RB

  14. Other than this Rat issue, there is serous information being aired across South African that Deadly air-bone disease originated from Zambia. They are saying it with mockery. And now we hear that Children are dying because their noses were beaten by Rats. Shame!! What will S/Africans Say? You Think am not patriotic. Shame on you.

  15. All you muppets who have said anything negative are pretenders especially if you are in the UK. Rats are there in the NHS. Now stop being ifipuba.
    Ho Ho Ho!

  16. who gives it dump about SA. you see thats how it is when you re an illegal immigrant you are already worried that they will bandle you up and deport you.

  17. Hele Hele # 13 why are you so bitter….you seem o be in he diaspora too..what about that ka flag..and the time of posting your comment. Just be nice Man

  18. # 13 you are at internet cafe and your time has run out on the computer…learn to appreciate the western world..your freinds are having fun nangu balesamfya imbale

  19. Hospitals and satanism links are very common -read “he came to set the captives free” by Rebbecca Brown. She was he nurse and God used her to expose satanist activities in hospitals.. usually nasty happenings. However mob justice is wrong because innocent people can easily be accused. The real players are sophisticated spiritual beings who can be only exposed can by serious prayers and fasting. And its usually hard to gather evidence against them.

  20. Young men and women blogging on this site – learn one thing. Reports emanating from newspapers usally don’t carry the whole truth. Yes, this incident may be annoying but the fact is a dirty hospital can have any pests, rodents or whatever. Sata was minsiter of health, what reforms did he leave in place to avoid such incidents? I used to go to the Mortuary at UTH when I lived in Zambia during Chiluba’s reign and I can tell you that 90% of men were afraid of entering the mortuary. Is anything strange today? Wake up and face reality – there is a lot that needs to be done and NOT just shouting like Sata.Use your brains and not your loud mouths. I love you all. One zambia one nation.Amusiyale fo

  21. Aha ba #31 you sound like you were a mortuary attendant to me. Not that am being awkward! We needed you.

    HO Ho Ho.

  22. My the baby rest in peace. Condolences to the family of the baby on its loss.
    As for the Kasama people, why is it that you are alwasy looking for someone to accused of something bad. Grow up and accept reality before your faces.

  23. #34, The only reason why I used to go to the mortuary was that I was unfortunate enough to have lost a lot of friends and relatives either in car accidents or dubious killings. That was the Chiluba era for you.

  24. Reading the bloggs, I think Sata must be advised to withdraw and reorganise his party. The MPs are very annoyed with him. How can people who feed the man be insulted in public like that? Even Machungwa is very furious ka. Yah, now if he cannot manage his 42 MPs, how can he manage 12 million Zambians who include you and me. You must be joking. KK told you a lot of things and you must respect – go to School and you will afford to eat bacon and egg everyday. He did not tell you where? Respect the man. he meant well for most of you and you are enjoying life but Sata – ya mwailasha mwee.

  25. This is really a sad story. Can somebody point out at the improvements Sata left at the ministry of health when he was minister of health. As far as I am concerned these are the standard he left for Zambia. How many hospitals were even built when he was minister? nothing, yet he claims to have worked hard when he was there, shame on Sata!!!Look at what is happening in his own area. Had he worked well and uplifted the standards we would not have been having rats eating babies’ nose in a hospital. Meanwhile VIVA HH!!! For real change that we can all believe in. We are tired of these recycled politicians who have nothing tangible to point at during their so called political history. Vote HH!!

  26. why beat on nurses when clearly this is the governments fault. who else can we blame the health department or what?

    God bless our country as we stride forward to a better future for all of us.

  27. This is gross negligence by nurses.How on earth can they leave a mother who just delivered alone in the ward,instead of being their to observe her and the newly born.SHAME on them, they deserve beating tho its unlawful.The deceased family must sue the two.NUN is it bcoz you have no children?its your own choice to be a nun.

  28. The mob should not have beaten the two nurses coz that is taking the law into their own hands.The problem with us Zambians is that we like ‘Ukukonkuluda’. I hope the health ministry will do something about this unfortunate baby, that is if it is still alive.

  29. What is worse than xenophobia #3? Rats are pests that are like cochroaches and are very difficulty to exterminate. Much as it is an undesirable occurence, i don’t see the logic of spiting the whole country’s citizenry. Don’t tell me everything else in South Africa is perfect. What is easy to control #3, a gang of xenophobic hoodlums or nimble footed rats? Of course rats because of their nature but you in south africa failed to control the obvious. Shame on you.

  30. Yet again, free material for what I get paid to do!! I can’t thank you enough ba LT – these stories go well into my sitcom.

  31. NOW IT IS THE RAT HAVING A BIG FEAST ON A BABY.PEOPLE WERE TOLD TO
    FOLLOW THE RIGHT CHANNEL TO AIR THEIR GRIEVANCES.BLOGGERS ARE BEING
    PATRIOTIC JUST ON THIS WEB.HAVING R-A-T-S IN CHILDREN’S WARD IS NOT
    NORMAL MWEBANTU!LET US DO SOMETHING TO RECTIFY SOME THINGS BECAUSE
    MOST OF US ON THIS SITE SEEM TO BE SCHOOLED IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
    DONT JUST CASTIGATE STANFORD.

  32. #41 Abena Copperbelt twapapata shikulu dnt advertise yo ignorance,u mean u didnt get wat KK said that Sata worked well as a Minister?Shame on u

  33. Bloggers please 1. The baby is not dead, it needs to be taken to UTH.
    2. It’s very sad that a rat should eat a baby’s nose and later on its mouth all this time taken and rats don’t eat in large bites so where were the nurses. To leave an unconsious mother and baby for a long time.

  34. Told you pipo, i don’t know why it is difficult for you to understand!!!

    Vote for Sata and all this will be the talk of the Past!!!

    PABWAAAAAATOOOOOO>>>>>

  35. I strongly feel for nurses pa Zedi. Poor and meagre salaries, hand to mouth = mental anguish. Now physical abuse? FIBUTUKENI!
    I am workig in a vey condusive environment, happy, well salaried, bought plenty houses both here and pa Zedi and living large. I drive brand new cars at will. PLEASE ZAMBIAN NURSES WAKE UP FROM YOUR
    SLUMBERS. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE/DIFFICULT, EVERY THINGBEGINS/STARTS BUT WITH JUST ONE STEP!

  36. Thus sad,health services pa Zed are such a rat race.This is extremely sad.We cannot all be abroad and overseas,our families are pa Zed,and need looking after by those that have braved the economic problems at home.The nurses are innocent and do not have any control over eradication of rodents.Where is the Chief Medical Officer in all this?The Provincial Medical Officer etc?if it is in the western world heads would definitely roll.The nurses are in this case just scape goats.Any loss of life must be treated seriously and i believe the powers that be will look into this sternly.May the babys soul rest in piece.

  37. Dr Chiplebesha! this is embarrasing. Pay the pipo well and this won’t happen again. And we have fools advocating for a state of the art Football stadium, when nurses are underpaid. we need to get our prioriteis right !!

  38. A hospital is a health institution and anything unhealth is not welcome. Having rats in a hospital ward is not health, just because there are rats in UK hospitals doesnt mean we should have rats in Zambian hospitals. Something must be done seriously.

  39. Thats why we need Sata how can we be having rats in a hospital even eating babies. We got to be serious.People are not doing there job. Good on the Police they should have those guys arrested, even beating up nurses and also a nurse who is a nun! where is the morality of the Zambian people?Beating up women, come on guys! thats disrespect, i reckon those guys should have come from the village or something.

  40. This situation is very painful.I share the sorrow this mother is going through.It is painful to loss a baby. To Dr. Chituwo, please this is an indication that the things in the hospitals are not alright.Kasama is not definately the only hospital in a mess. ZRA boasted of raising a lot of money from taxes,can your government please give health services a priority before you leave office on 30th October. Napapata.

  41. its really unfortunate and very shameful indeed, what is hon chitowo doing? how can we have rats in hospitals ? are the patients safe sure. a hospital is suppose to be a very hygenic and condusive place for patients but looks like this hospital instead of patients looking forward to getting they will be fearing for their own health. in this day and age sure zambia should have such unhealthy health facilities. pls be serious !!!!!we need change !

  42. Though I dont condone violence..these nurses deserved the beating for not hearing the child crying when being bitten by rats!!!!..

  43. 30.l conquer with you,there is alot of satanism in hospital,hence strange happenings which are hard to gather evidence.However beating the nurses isn’t the solution.We shouldn’t the law in our own hands.

  44. They deserved that beating. Govt needs to look into these issues of negligence in hospitals. My own sister delivered on her own and yet in hospital coz the nurses thought it was not yet time!

    Number 6, speak for yourself! Not all of us Zambians eat rats! Disgusting!

  45. too bad. Dr. Kabulubulu must talk to his collegues in the Veterinery to help, we cant afford to be beaten by rats that way moreover where were the Medical staff when the baby was being bitten like that? people lets be serious. i dont think there is any satanism, its just lack of seriousness by hospital staff, they should pull up their socks

  46. RATS IN THE MATERNITY WARD…KU UTH MOTUARY WE WILL SOON HEAR HYENAS AND VULTURES. LETS BE SERIOUS THIS IS 2008 NOT 208
    BA DR. BRIAN CHITUWO, CAN YOU REWARD THAT POOR MOTHER…..
    B4 SHILAISAKO

  47. Rats in a health institute is a definite no no please and I am glad somebody reported this for a change instead of the usual political nonsense

    With such incidences we cant blame S.A for reporting that the mysterious disease originated from Zambia!

  48. Job of a nurse is not to chase rats in hospitals, blame the leaders who should invested funds to improve Zambian hospitals than run off to good hospitals in other countries when they get sick. Rats and cocroaches are found everywhere in the world where there is FILTH & POVERTY, in Zambia when you go to hospital for treatment or vist patients you risk contracting all sorts of diseases, in those hospitals patients sleep on bare floors, women carry home their own afterbirth in buckets to dispose of them after giving birth relatives have to bring food for patients from outside.. next, nurses will be blamed for power cuts and water shortages!

  49. but kastanford or wateve you ko yourself ulikabuba!have you really travelled you think in the so called developed countries there no such cases?you must travell b4 you trash zambia waufwa?and anyway you have said all zambians including you!you should be ashamed of yourself.put that in caps and underline and in red,silly boy or gal plus bad mannners.most pipo i know satnd up for there countries regardless of the mess there are in.were are you iwewene kanshi?wekabubawe

  50. It is sad that babies have died and poor Nurses are trying their best and were treated that way. It is not the job of the nurse to keep virgil of rats or get rid of rats in the Hospital, but pets control under general administration.

    I work in one of the prestigious London Hospitals. RATS are there, see them time to time. So it not only in Zambia where you find rats in Hospitals, here in England and food attracts them. #74, dont be deceived rats are there in SA Hospitals!!

  51. Ba #28(Salah Palin) kanshi musafya imbale yaba mwasebana! we don’t know may be you clean toilets where you are as an economic refugee!

  52. …and #57(Karolina) looks after the terminally ill and the old. cleaning feacal matter and stuff so as to buy houses and drive new cars….hahahhhhh!!!

  53. #14 Popi wa kantu,
    iwe ulengeba,koswe eats your babies nose whilst you r unconcious then you say dont demonise,thats there job to take care of the patients. in this case its a baby who cant talk or walk,the mother was unconcious.what was the stupid nurse on duty doing? sleeping or catching up on gossip,that is such a pathetic comment.Wait until your childs eye is pocked out at the clinic then you will know that you are out of your mind to aford such a hallusinating comment.Why dont we hear of babies parts being eaten from homes? but this time it is a place were life starts,those creatures(nurses)are so heartless they are used to seeing all sorts of things(death,bleadig)may God deliver them

  54. elo!ba kalolina if its you just stay were you are you think i dont know your I.D, every one must manage what they do a

  55. be generous and do not despise the little beginnings, if they have failed to manage their job now you think they will manage the one u r doing , i know what you do dont decieve people to want then join whaT you do they were wrong,its only fare that the mob managed to to something befor the ploice got to rescue them.
    Ba Kalolina muleikalafye,

  56. #68,are you serious?nurses are over burdened,its not their job to chase rats even you if you were a nurse would you do that when you have over 100 women in labour sreaming then you start chasing rast wouldnt pipo think you are mad!my auntie is a nurse if she is on nite duty she has about 70 womwen to attend to and that is UTH,so now tell how she can manage to look after the women and chase rats and attend to babies.and how much mnoey does she get?peanuts and an mp or minister who sits in parliament dozing hafl the time gets a lot of allowances just for that!so its not the nurses fault but our leaders.think before you condem pipo.

  57. Its very sad to hear about the baby’s death.the mother must be devasted,my condolences.The nurses deserve the beating ,honest,the babies ‘s cries could not be heared by the so called nurses.shame. Ba karolina 57,shame on u ,can u tell us what u ve done for zed with wat u claim to ve achieved.
    all zambians living out there should respect where they come from.standford u are a sick man,grow up please.
    its not goood to point fingers,lets use our voters cards to turn zed around.
    together we can do it

  58. Shame! The country has no food for rodents so they can eat up babies. I believe the baby belongs to the impoverished Zambian and not Satas, Rupias or HH family. This is not a police case but political.God help our landlocked country.

  59. Ba karolina 57,boasting for nothing i believe .can u tell us what u have done for this country with yo wealth.learn to invested in the communities of zed.i case you dont know yo wealth can help alot back here.
    on the baby ‘s death its very sad and indeed something should be done.hospital are suppose to more cleaner.shame on ministry of health.
    use your vote to turn around this country.
    it has alot of resources.look at how many whites are in our country to dya ,its un believable.
    lets wake up zambians

  60. Were nurses sleeping on duty for God´s sake?
    Was the baby born dead and so looked like a meal for rats?
    Do we have Ministry of health district inspectors?
    Look around our neighbours, even Angola that was in war for three decades cannot afford such appalling hospital conditions!

    Does it mean that money from mining, tourism, agriculture and skilled labour are not enough to salvage this country?
    Are we still waiting for donor aid???????
    Shame on the political leaders even when they know the country cannot sustain itself adequately they keep thieving. Lesa apale.

  61. #73 shalow minded. what is to nurse? it is to care and look after***. it doesn’t mean that a nurse can not chase or scare away a rat which is feesting on a human being. you should make meaningful contributions. this is just due to negligency

  62. In 2001 I Had sick baby in UTH when the condition got worse at ninght i rushed for the nurse for help to have the tube in the nose replaced only to be told that i was disturbing them they wanted to sleep. This nurse told the baby “ati lobe ngawachifunya nakabili.”

  63. Dont worry an economic govornor is coming to save our country vote out poverty your vote is the gun that can only shout out poverty vote for HH as you next presdint then zambia shall go forward

  64. ha really sad to rats in a maternity unit God help the innocent baby to survive and have the op asap . ECZ AND EHT S NCHITO YAONEKA .

  65. this is not a story to expose…… its an imbarrasment; were did the nurses go for a rat to reach that far…….
    its a pitty……(why didnt RB finish those rats)
    well, dont worry coz all this will be OVER, when H.H comes in.

  66. too bad and its a pity that such things are still happening in our beloved country can the health minister do some thing please. but somehow the nurses were wrong despite not being of what they where acussed of,but thats the negligence of the nurses on duty especially that the mother of that child was uncouncious. nurses please do your job of protecting people’s lives as you are dedicated people.

  67. i wish i can kick a teacher if my child fails or wipe a farmer if i cant find my favourite vegetable or worse still force mulongoti to kiss my a*s if get no signal on my ZNBC channel. who is to blame for the presence of pest in a hospital? is it a nurse, environmental health technician or chituwo? certainly not a nurse! shortage of nurses is everywhere so u dont expect 1 nurse to 1 patient. PHD you need to put in security measures or else you a*s will be kicked too. this is another sad development for the day. education is needed the hard way,the court. take it up ZUNO guys like Tom and siame…

  68. Its really sad that an innocent baby was a victim of such……..as for the nurses, am sure they know there are rats in the hospital and shouldnt have left the baby en the mother alone like that. This is negligence on the hospital. The govt shud be ashamed palifi, ba sugar dady nabo instead of giving sugar baleposa ama kuma issues like this. Shame on the Zambian govt!

  69. BA #83, So you know my I.D?, So what?- For the poor abused nurses this is a wake up call. You don’t stay stagnant in one filthy place when all doors to the brighter future are open………..

    BA#88, No one has come back openly to support the communities pa Zedi. Ask why? its not easy, we run away as economic refugees to make our dreams come true. LIFE IS TOO SHORT AND YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE! WHY BE EMPLOYED TO BE CHASING RATS IN A WORK PLACE? THAT IS NOT PART OF NURSES JOB DESCRIPTION, UNLESS A NEW JOB DESCRIPTION PA ZEDI, PROBABLY THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WOLRD!

  70. Ba#81, I have a very important message for you. I hope you die in an accident, other wise in any illness you will need the services of a nurse world wild you like it or not. ONCE YOU ARE UNCONSCIOUS, NOT EVEN YOUR MOTHER WILL WIPE YOUR FAECAL MATTER FROM YOUR FILTHY BOTTOM, YOUR WIFE WILL DO IT WITH OOOMPH!

    RESPECT OTHER PEOPLES CAREERS. As for my wealth , its a honestly obtained wealth, doing a job so very loved. I WILL DIE A NURSE IF ANYTHING ELSE! CLEANSE YOUR BRAINS BANE!

  71. IMWE BA #8, NIGERIANS let a lot being a nigerian is not anything anyone can be proud of in all senses. Nigerians are known to be INTERNANATIONAL THUGS across the globe TIME MEMORIAL!, What are you talking about? wake up!.

  72. RB is a rat eater. Let him go and campaign in Kasama, his ndiyo (relish) is waiting for him there. Tata ba RB umunani ulemilolela

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